Population:
88,133

Fort Smith profile

Living in Fort Smith

Fort Smith is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 88,133 people and 20 constituent neighborhoods, Fort Smith is the second largest community in Arkansas.

Fort Smith is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Smith is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Smith who work in sales jobs (12.47%), office and administrative support (12.42%), and management occupations (7.76%).

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.37 minutes getting to work every day.

Many people in Fort Smith take advantage of public transportation to get around. In fact, for the size of the city, the number of people who use the bus to commute to work is quite high. This helps to fill a need among Fort Smith citizens for affordable transportation.

The education level of Fort Smith citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.94% of adults 25 and older in Fort Smith have a college degree.

The per capita income in Fort Smith in 2010 was $22,819, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,276 for a family of four. However, Fort Smith contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Fort Smith is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fort Smith home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Smith residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Smith also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.25% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Smith include German, Irish, Italian, and French .

The most common language spoken in Fort Smith is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.